"They were on the rooftop, but the house was gone," Brown said. "I don't
know how they survived."

Heavy rains moved into eastern Tennessee overnight Friday and continued
to soak the area on Saturday. Brown said some areas received 6-9 inches of
rain and other areas, near flooded creeks and rivers, were completely washed
out. He estimated at least 70 roads were damaged and 15 bridges were washed
out. He said it was too early to tell how many homes were affected.

Rescue efforts on the ground were nearly impossible in some areas. One
rescue boat capsized, dumping two rescue workers into the floodwater. Neither
was injured.

"A lot of places we couldn't use our boats," Brown said. "So one
place...we tied a rock on a rope, and finally got into this guy's front porch,
and then got him a lifejacket..... and tied a rope around it and got him out
that way."

Emergency officials must battle rushing waters, as well as massive puddles.

Just over the border in eastern Kentucky, authorities are searching for a
woman missing near Robinson Creek. Sgt. Lynn Cross of the Kentucky State
Police said the woman and a friend were driving through a flooded area
Saturday when their car stalled. Both women got out and one was swept away by
the current.

One man died after he was swept away in his car near Hurricane Creek in
northern Pike County Friday night, Cross said. He was trying to recover a
four-wheel all-terrain vehicle that his friends had driven into a flooded area.
His friends were not hurt.

Some homes in the region had flooded basements, said Terri Osborne of the
Pike County Emergency Management Office, and some trees were down.

Cross said about five inches of rain fell Friday night on already-soaked
ground, swelling creeks over their banks. He said most of the roads that were
closed in the area had reopened by Saturday afternoon and much of the water has
receded back into the creeks.

"We're in a mountainous area, you get two or three inches of rain, you
get flooding," Cross said.